Russia troops shoot dead three militants in Dagestan

Moscow (Reuters)-security forces shot dead three militants in the turbulent weeks of the North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, Russia, local media said.

According to the RIA News Agency, the militant was hiding in a forest and opened fire towards troops inspect the area on Sunday morning, Reuters reported.

"Three militants were killed. No law enforcement officers were wounded, "said the Interfax news agency quoted the Agency's criminal investigators Russia.

President Vladimir Putin, who became famous after muslim rebelion in Chechnya, ordered security forces on high alert to secure the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in the Black Sea coastal town of Sochi, Krasnodar region, separated from the North Caucasus by three small Territories.

The Kremlin is still trying to cope with muslim guerrillas in the North Caucasus, a decade after the federal troops in Chechnya separatists mendongkel dominance.

Suicide bombing attacks launched by a principal of the North Caucasus, killing 37 people in the most densely populated Russia Domodedovo Airport in Moscow in January 2011.

The attack was made the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev was then fired a number of medium-level police officials and leading to Domodedovo pendongkelan senior managers.

The suicide bombing was claimed by Doku Umarov, the leader of the Caucasus Emirate.

United States incorporate the Caucasus Emirate to its list of terrorist groups because of the serangan-serangannya in an attempt to dislodge the Government from the North Caucasus region of Russia.

Violence flared in the North Caucasus, where muslim guerrillas are angry because of poverty and global jihad ideology driven by wanting to establish an independent State based on sharia law.

Dagestan, located on the shores of the Caspian Sea, has replaced its neighbouring territories as a center of violence in the North Caucasus who are muslim.

Dagestan borders Chechnya in the North Caucasus, where Russia is facing violent muslim hardliners, and a muslim province that is often hit by attacks targeting law enforcement officers and Government officials.

The attacks have made the Kremlin promised again to quell the guerrillas in the North Caucasus. The area hit by violence since two post-war Soviet happened in Chechnya between separatist guerrillas and Government forces.

The group human rights groups accused the authorities in the North Caucasus region of Russia--ranging from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea--do major offences under the pretext of HUMAN RIGHTS to quell muslim militancy. (M014)

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Mali soldiers clashed with militants in Gao

Gao, Mali (Reuters)-clashes between soldiers and militants erupted Sunday in Mali in the streets in Gao, the biggest town in northern Mali who attacks rocked by suicide bombings in the last two days.

The two sides engaged in a shootout in the afternoon in the center of the city near the police station, said an AFP correspondent.

France-led forces recaptured Gao on 26 January from Al Qaida linked militants who ruled the region of northern Mali for 10 months after a military coup.

Clashes in the path it takes place after Saturday's suicide bomb attacks late at night at a military checkpoint at the entrance of the city, after a similar attack in the same location the day before.

The two suicide bombings were the first such attacks were in Mali.

Oneness and Jihad movement in West Africa (MUJAO), one of the groups that dominate northern Mali before being driven off by the intervention of France that was launched on 11 January, claimed responsibility for the first attack and on Saturday threatened to launch further attacks.

"We are determined to launch further attacks against the forces of France and its allies. We asked local residents away from the military zone and avoid an explosion, "said spokesman MUJAO Abou Walid Sahraoui.

Attack-suicide bomb attacks that killed only the two perpetrators.

One soldier lightly injured in the bombing Friday. No longer are injured in Saturday's attack, said a soldier at the checkpoint.

France, which is working with the military of Mali, on January 11, launched operation when militants threaten advanced to the capital of Mali, Bamako, after months of doubt about the African intervention forces to help drive out hard-line groups from the northern region.

Mali, who had become one of stable democracies in Africa, experienced the uncertainty after the coup d ' état in March 2012 overthrow the Government of President Amadou Toumani Toure.

The international community is worried that country will become the new hotbed of terrorists and they support the efforts of Africa to intervene militarily.

The United Nations has approved the placement of the African intervention force consisting of about 3300 soldiers under the auspices of the ECOWAS grouping of West African States. With the involvement of Chad, which has pledged 2,000 soldiers, means the number of intervention forces that would be much greater.

Hard-line groups, which said the experts acting under the umbrella of Al Qaida in Islamic Morocco (AQIM), dominate the North, Mali to the extent greater than that of France, since April last year.

Tribal rebels in mid-January 2012 launched more war decades for the independence of the Tuareg in the northern region they claim as their land, reinforced by heavily armed guerrillas who recently returned from Libya. However, their struggle was then hijacked by hard-line muslim groups.

Disgruntled army coup in March meant to give the military more authority in order to quell a revolt in the North, but it in fact backfire and the rebels took control of three major cities in the North of Mali within three days. (M014)

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Pakistan says U.S. pressure on militants must end

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Some of nearly 300 residents, most of whom support the Sundar Sharif Sufi Shrine, take part in an anti-American rally through the streets of Lahore, September 28, 2011.

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By Qasim Nauman

ISLAMABAD | Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:31am EDT

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The United States must stop blaming Islamabad for regional instability, Pakistan's prime minister told a gathering of the country's political leaders on Thursday, as Washington stepped up pressure on the South Asian nation to tackle militancy.

"The blame game should end, and Pakistan's sensitive national interests should be respected," Yusuf Raza Gilani said in comments carried live on local television stations.

Pakistani military officials, who set security and foreign policy, were expected to brief the meeting, where the possibility of unilateral U.S. military steps against militants in Pakistan could be discussed.

"Solutions to issues based on perceptions should be sought through meaningful negotiations. Pakistan cannot be pressurized to 'do more.'" Gilani told officials including the head of Pakistan's military spy service, Lieutenant-general Ahmad Shuja Pasha, and army chief General Ashfaq Kayani, arguably the most powerful man in Pakistan.

"Our national interests should be respected in all circumstances. From our side, all doors for negotiations are open. We desire the international community's cooperation."

Pakistan says it has made more sacrifices than any other country in the war on militancy, losing about 10,000 soldiers and security forces.

SUPPORT FOR U.S. MILITARY ACTION GROWING

But support is growing in Congress for expanding American military action in Pakistan beyond the drone strikes that already target militants, a senior Republican senator said.

The comments by Senator Lindsey Graham, an influential Republican voice on foreign policy and military affairs, follow remarks by the top U.S. military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, accusing Pakistan last week of supporting the militant Haqqani network's September 13 attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul.

Islamabad, which has received billions of dollars of U.S. aid despite its reluctance to go after the Haqqani network, faces the most intense pressure to tackle militancy since it joined the U.S. "war on terror" a decade ago.

Pakistan's military faced withering public criticism after the United States' unilateral raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani garrison town in May.

A similar U.S. operation against militant leaders in North Waziristan on the Afghan border, where American officials say the Haqqanis are based, would be another humiliation for the powerful military.

Graham said in an interview with Reuters that U.S. lawmakers might support military options beyond drone strikes that have been going on for years inside Pakistani territory.

Those options may include using U.S. bomber planes within Pakistan. The South Carolina Republican said he did not advocate sending U.S. ground troops into Pakistan.

"I would say when it comes to defending American troops, you don't want to limit yourself," Graham said. "This is not a boots-on-the-ground engagement -- I'm not talking about that, but we have a lot of assets beyond drones."

Graham said U.S. lawmakers will think about stepping up the military pressure. "If people believe it's gotten to the point that is the only way really to protect our interests, I think there would be a lot of support," he said.

REVIEWING AID

Pakistan was designated a major non-NATO ally by the United States for its support of coalition military operations in Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

But their relationship is marred by mistrust. Pakistan, regarded as critical to U.S. efforts to stabilize Afghanistan, is often described as an unreliable partner.

Following U.S. accusations that some in the Pakistani government have aided anti-U.S. militants, Congress is re-evaluating its 2009 promise to triple non-military aid to Pakistan to a total of $7.5 billion over five years.

The non-military aid came on top of billions in security assistance Washington has provided since 2001, and is now rethinking as well.

Any unilateral U.S. military action would deepen anti-American sentiment which already runs high in Pakistan over drone strikes and other issues.

Many people question why thousands of Pakistani soldiers have died fighting what they believe is strictly America's war on militants since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Pakistani politicians will have those sentiments in mind when they formulate a message for the United States in the all-party talks.

The Haqqani network is allied with Afghanistan's Taliban and is believed to have close links to al Qaeda. It fights U.S. and NATO forces in eastern Afghanistan.

The group's leader says it is no longer based in North Waziristan and feels secure operating in Afghanistan after making battlefield gains.

Pakistan has vowed to help all sides create peace in Afghanistan, but Kabul has been deeply distrustful of Islamabad's objectives.

(Additional reporting by Zeeshan Haider and Augustine Anthony in Islamabad, Mirwais Harooni in Kabul and Missy Ryan and Susan Cornwall in Washington; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by John Chalmers and Sanjeev Miglani)

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